Trail v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 1999
most recently cited
2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Blankenship Oil Corp. · Williams v. Vaughan · Whitley v. Patterson · Meador v. Lawson · Williams v. Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel District
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere proof of the skidding of a motor vehicle on a slippery roadway does not establish negligence on the part of its operator, but is a circumstance to be considered along with all of the other evidence in determining whether negligence has been shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edlow v. Arnold
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.